1. Character: Most important. Bottom line, you want a good guy who will take care of business both on and off the court and not be a 'high maintenance' type of person who is more headache than he's worth. Making big money investment in a guy and he needs to be reliable to make the right decisions on a number of fronts. Too often teams roll the dice in this area and get burned badly. 'Ability without character leads to lots of issues and losses.' Let's not kid ourselves here, the guy doesn't need to be a saint but he just has to make the right calls when he has to.